The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-26

Learning the Poultry Business.
On this subject Mr.. F. B, thinner writes
as follows in the Poultry Monthly: 1t will
pay you to learn the business, providing
you can find a place with some scientific
breeder, who devotes the whole or a part
OF his time among his pets, and provided
you are sure you are lover of fowls, as
none other will ever be true fancier or
cientif1c breeder, and unless you are capa-
bic of becoming both it viii never pay you,
as the business has attained that point that
man must be able to improve visibly on
some of our older breeds. or, in other words,
bring out some of our sterling qualities
more prominently than bis competitors. or
originate some new breed, something to
make him popular, or there is not much
money in the business BY this mean that
man would not be likely to start in the
business and make his fowls pay for putting
up buildings, buying his stock, buying the
food they eat, support his family and lay
up snug little sum of money in two or
three years. As l said, l think it will pay
to learn the business if position can be
had with the right kind of fancier, one
who can breed the kind of fowls spoken Of
above, and then believe what he tells you,
and what you see him prove by breeding
this kind of stock, while you are with him.
Why? Because the trouble often comes in
this way: the right way to mate and handle
fowls as to their mating, feeding, quarters,
etc. also care Of young from the time they
are out of the shell until they enter the
breeding pen, appears to the amateur as
the wrong way Now this successful breeder
has had experience or the fraternity would
not care for his advice, and you can wager
a new silk hat that he did not get his expe-
rience without paying for it. You better
take it as a gift when he offers it and save
money. no matter if it isn't your idea. l
mean the greater part, perhaps he is wrong
in some of his views, it would not be great
wonder if he was, but before you accept
any new ways see that they will prove
| themselves Poultry business needs con-
siderable sense--the common kind will an
swer if rightly applied.
If you wish to start fancy poultry bust
ness, because you are lover of fine fowls,
but at the same time you know you have
not had the required experience, but are
willing to pay for some one who has it, to
mate YOU fowls, hatch your chicks and
rear them, it will pay you providing, after
you have this kind Of man, you allow his
experience to run it. Here, again, the right
way may seem the wrong way. Test it and
see. If he asks for suitable houses and yards
to keep your fowls apart during breeding
season, put them up at once. He can't
breed pure games and have Hamburg
cock in the yard. These houses and yards
need not be painted and grained, only made
comfortable and SAFE If the rats or hawks
| are destroying the young broods, and he
tells you of coops that will keep them from
! their enemies, give him such coops, as the
chicks they will destroy in one season
would, if reared, pay fofall the coops you
would need for lifetime, if properly cared
for. In case you do not do this don't blame
the man, who has tried his best under these
disadvantages to raise the few chicks that
| you have in the fall